Notes on The Turing Lectures: "What is generative AI?"
The Turing Lectures: What is generative AI? Generative - create new content (audio, code, images, text, video) Artificial Intelligence - automatically using a computer program "a lot of myth about it, its just a tool", "we have to spell it out" Generative AI is not a new concept. Google translate (17 yo) is an example of generative AI. Another example is Apples Siri (11yo), another generative AI. Phone autocomplete or Google search autocomplete Not that new so "what is the fuss"? Answer: chatGpt was launched. chatGpt is a lot more sophisticated than older AIs. You can have a conversation. The technology is not extremely new. It uses language modeling. Given a context, the language model can predict e.g. context: "I want to" prediction: play, eat, shovel AIs used to count to predict but latest use Neural Networks. Feed context (prompt text) into neural language model which predicts the answer. Basic steps to build a language model: Step 1. ...